Category: Talks

Here are the slides of my talk at the German Perl Workshop 2019 in Munich, which summarises a Christmas series of posts written last year. Lots of Perl 6 one-liners and related stuff such as the usage of the MAIN function. Video recording should also appear soon.

At the German Perl Workshop 2019 in Munich, I gave a presentation about how to create compilers and interpreters using Perl 6 grammars. This talk differs from my previous talks on this subject, so if you’ve seen them, I hope you will also enjoy this one. There was a video recording during the talk, I assume that the video will appear reasonably soon.

Here’s my recent talk from FOSDEM in Brussels, given on 3 February 2019.

Perl 6 grammars are a great way to describe the grammar and implement an interpreter or a compiler of DSL or a programming language. In this talk, I will demonstrate how you can do it. During the talk, we will create an interpreter for a tiny programming language.

The engine behind the implementation will be the so-called Grammars that are available in today’s Perl 6. We will create the full language specification and describe all the actions it needs to do to execute the program.

The great part is that you no longer need to split your language implementation in traditional phases: lexer, parser, etc. Neither you need a compiler of compilers to process the formal grammar rules and emit the lexer/parse code that you will later use in your compiler. All you need is just to write some Perl 6 code. You even don’t need to be a specialist in compilers or learn numerous tools like bizon etc. to create your own language in a few hours.